§ Mrs. Colquhounasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the value of the lowest decile of both male and female 429W manual workers as a percentage of median earning for each year since 1960 for which data is available.
GROSS WEEKLY EARNINGS OF FULL-TIME MANUAL ADULTS LOWEST DECILE AS PERCENTAGE OF CORRESPONDING MEDIAN Men Women Source October 1960 … … 70.6 72.0 Special survey in manufacturing and certain other industries (United Kingdom) Average 1963 … … 70.7 68.5 Family Expenditure Survey (United Kingdom) Average 1964 … … 71.6 65.1 Family Expenditure Survey (United Kingdom) Average 1965 … … 69.7 66.5 Family Expenditure Survey (United Kingdom) Average 1966 … … 68.6 66.3 Family Expenditure Survey (United Kingdom) Average 1967 … … 69.8 66.1 Family Expenditure Survey (United Kingdom) September 1968 … … 67.3 71.1 New Earnings Survey (Great Britain) April 1970 … … … 67.3 69.0 New Earnings Survey (Great Britain) April 1971 … … … 68.2 70.2 New Earnings Survey (Great Britain) April 1972 … … … 67.6 68.9 New Earnings Survey (Great Britain) April 1973 … … … 67.3 69.2 New Earnings Survey (Great Britain) April 1974 … … … 68.6 69.1 New Earnings Survey (Great Britain) April 1975 … … … 69.2 68.4 New Earnings Survey (Great Britain) Differences between estimates for different dates may be attributable partly
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§ Mr. John FraserThe Following estimates are available from the sources shown.
to the different bases of compilation and sampling variations.